Railway-rail joint



(No Model.)

0. G. MAULDIN. RAILWAY RAIL JOINT.

No. 600,793. Patented Mar. 15,1898.

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RAILWAY-RA! L JOINT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 600,793, dated March 15,1898. Application filed September 20, 1897. Serial No. 6 52,358. (Nomodel.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,DOCTOR CHESTER MAUL- DIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Lone Oak, in the county of Hunt and State ofTexas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-RailJoints; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled inthe art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to joints for connecting ends of railway-rails; andits object is to provide an improved construction of the same by whichthe rails may be securely connected and prevented from spreading, anddispensing with the ordinary fish-plates now commonly employed.

The invention consists, essentially, in a metal plate adapted to restupon an ordinary railway-tie, formed near each end with twoupwardly-projecting lugs beveled or inclined at their adjoining ends andformed near their inner edges with a series of holes, which are alinedwith corresponding holes in the plate, in combination with the tie, therails engaging with said lugs, and with spikes passing through saidholes, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional View takentransversely across a railway-track, showing the rails and tie providedwith my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is aperspective View of the metal joint. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of theends of two railroad-rails.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral l designates a woodenrailway-tie, and 2 the joint. This joint consists of a metal plateformed near each end with two lugs arranged in pairs, with a spacebetween the lugs of each pair. The inner or adjoining sides of theselugs are beveled at 3 to correspond with the base 4 of the rails 5.These lugs at their upper ends are formed with a number of holes 6, andthe plate is formed with corresponding holes 7 for the passage of spikes8, which also pass through the base of the rails. As will be seen byreferring to Fig. 4, one end of the rails 5 is formed with slot-s 9 inthe upper end of the base and with holes 10 at the inner end to receivethe spikes. The other end of the rails is formed with tongues 12 andholes 13. In practice the tongues of one rail will fit in the slots ofthe adjoining rail, and the holes 10 and 13 will be alined with thespike-holes of the lugs, so that the spikes passing through the lugswill also pass through the holes in the rails. and 13, as will be seen,are elongated to permit of expansion and contraction of the rails.

The rails should fit loosely enough between the lugs to enable them tobe readily withdrawn when required, and the plate or joints are to besecured to the ties at the meeting ends of the rails.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Thecombination with the wooden tie, of the joint consisting of the metalplate having formed integral therewith near each end two lugs, the inneror adjoining sides of which are beveled and formed with holes and thesaid plate formed with coinciding holes, the

rails fitting between said lugs and the spikes, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination with the wooden tie and the joint consisting of themetal plate having formed integral therewith near each end two lugs, theinner or adjoining sides of which are beveled and formed with holes andthe said plates formed with coinciding holes, of the rails fittingbetween said lugs formed at their adjoining ends with interlockingtongues and stops and holes and the spikes passing through said lugs,plate and rails, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DOCTOR CHESTER MAULDIN.

Witnesses:

O. J. HUNDLY, M. E. MACKEY.

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